More than eight hundred years ago, Maimonides wrote that the highest form of giving is to make charity itself unnecessary.

On the morning of March 26, 2013, approximately 60,000 liters (16,000 gallons) of an oil byproduct used to produce asphalt ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

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New satellite data identified 513 sites of rare-earth mining that have cropped up across at least six key tributaries of the ...

On June 17, marine biologist Enrico Gennari and a group of students set out into the water in South Africa’s Mossel Bay. They ...

Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “I knew I ...

Guava farmer Haralal Halder, in his 45 years of farming profession in coastal Bangladesh, had never experienced a ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja ...

Meet the leaders of Mongabay’s global newsroom — people who have built Mongabay into an impactful news organization capable ...